The Law by Frederic Bastiat

[annarborgator]

This pamphlet was written by Bastiat in 1850 during the tumultuous French revolution. The ideas contained herein are rather prescient and, I think, do a good job of discussing the inherent injustice of the welfare state we currently exist within. I'm about halfway through it right now...would love to have any thoughts...I will post my reactions after I finish it..he talks quite a bit about how the law is supposed to create justice by outlining the things citizens can't do because those things will undermine the freedom or property of others. He says that when the law is used to plunder the liberty and property of citizens for the "good of society" that the law is entirely perverted and actually destroys the very thing it is supposed to ensure--justice. Very interesting read thus far.


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